querists

Updated: May 5, 2025

Aunt Hannah! do wake up; what is this awful noise?" "O, only a lock!" "Pray be still," groan out the sleepy members from below. "A lock!" exclaim the vivacious creatures, ever on the alert for information; "and what is a lock, pray?" "Don't you know what a lock is, you silly creatures? Do lie down and go to sleep." "But say, there ain't any danger in a lock, is there?" respond the querists.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings